Overview
A fourth-year Transplant Hepatology Fellowship is available for GI board-certified/eligible individuals who have completed their Gastroenterology Fellowship.
Our one-year ACGME-accredited Transplant Hepatology Fellowship provides training throughout the University of Washington System, including clinical experience at the University of Washington Medical Center, the site of an active Liver Transplant Program, as well as at the Veterans Administration Puget Sound Health Care System.
The program includes participation in clinical research.
Eligibility
Candidates must have completed Gastroenterology fellowship training in an ACGME-accredited program and be board-certified/eligible in Gastroenterology.
Program Policy on Eligibility, Recruitment, and Selection
Curriculum
We are committed to the training of physicians in the specialty field of Transplant Hepatology.
This commitment encompasses the education of medical students, residents, fellows, and fully trained physicians in practice.
Our curriculum is largely based upon the ACGME Program Requirements for Fellowship Education in Transplant Hepatology.
Five essential skills to be mastered by trainees:
- The knowledge base of anatomy, physiology, nutrition, biochemistry, cell biology, genetics, and pharmacology that is relevant to the specialty;
- Clinical care of hospitalized patients with disease;
- Technical aspects of transplant hepatology practice; including liver biopsies;
- Ambulatory care skills (including disease prevention and screening); and
- Ancillary skills geared to each trainee’s career plans.
All trainees will be encouraged to participate in clinical research training to understand the process of generating new knowledge in medicine.
Trainees will work with one or more mentor(s) through their 1 year program to achieve a good grasp of addressing clinically relevant questions with scientific rigor, and have first-hand experience in analyzing and presenting scientific data.
Specialized areas of training:
- Liver Pathology – where trainees will learn the techniques of preparing tissue sections, special histochemical and immunocytochemical staining methods, as well as interpretation of morphological structures in various disease states.
- Specialized Clinics - where patients presenting with defined disorders are cared for by a focused and concentrated effort and expertise. These training scenarios afford unique opportunities to benefit the trainees in the following areas: Hepatology, Liver Transplantation, and Liver Tumor Clinic.
Physicians who enter fellowship already have substantial knowledge in most of these areas that serve as a base for further learning.
CONTACT
Bernadette Andrada
Fellowship Program Administrator
Gastroenterology Training Programs
GI and Transplant Hepatology Fellowships
Email: HepFellowship@medicine.washington.edu